The Irish Times

A novella approach to an undervalued literary form

Here is a proposition for you: choose any author you love, find out where they live, break into their house when they are away on holidays, and loot through the drawers of their writing desk. There, ...
Publishers Weekly

BOA Editions: Recognizing Literary Forms in Need for 35 Years

For 35 years, the nonprofit poetry publisher BOA Editions has been a national force, releasing work from heavyweights like Li-Young Lee, Lucille Clifton, and Michael Waters, as well as up-and-comers ...
Fabula

Death Representations in Literature. Forms and Theories

Chapter proposals are invited for an edited volume entitled “Death Representations in Literature. Forms and Theory” to be published at Cambridge Scholars Publishing, in the Dying and Death Studies ...
The Irish Times

Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Fiction — A book crammed with compelling but elusive ideas

Boom! Crash! Boom again! This four-word history of 21st-century Ireland is brought to you by contemporary economists, who like to throw around jazzy language in case anyone notices how boring and ...
Smith College

World Literatures

The Program in World Literatures (formerly comparative literature) enables students to learn languages and engage with at least two literary and cultural traditions studied in their original languages ...
Scroll

Indian literature keeps waiting for the literary memoir as a form distinct from the autobiography

The contemporary memoir must surely be the most thankless of all literary genres. It remains an understudied category in scholarship, and is perceived as a lightweight or opportunist form among ...
Gulf Times

Authors forum discusses literary forms in Qatar

The Qatari Forum for Authors discussed, during its weekly session yesterday, the history of the emergence of literary forms in Qatar, which were launched with local newspapers that contributed to ...
The Stage

Theatre’s engagement with the literary form is to be celebrated, not scorned

Any play by Alice Birch, a firebrand of the imagination, is worth seeing. Every critic can tell you about the opening performances they’ve witnessed when they knew a modern classic was being born. For ...